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Omri Mor

Resisei Lyla

By Yosef Gutman Levitt

Label: Soul Song Records
Released: 2026
Track listing: Ani L'Dodi V'Dodi Li; Kumi Lach; Mi Zot Olah; Nigun Funke; Resisei Lyla; Rachamim Rabim; Shuvi Shuvi; Sleeping, My Heart Awake; Tzei Lach; Yedid Nefesh.

Yosef Gutman Levitt: Day and Night

by Geno Thackara
March 11, 2026

You could say that Yosef Gutman Levitt makes a musical version of land art--that '60s-'70s movement that involved making images or sculptures fitted to existing landscapes, and often using the earth's own materials. The bassist likewise uses a worldly range of tones with no need to fit them into any particular roles, simply letting the sounds ...

Take Five With Bassist / Composer Yosef Gutman Levitt

by AAJ Staff
July 18, 2024

Meet Yosef Gutman Yosef Gutman Levitt, born in 1979 in South Africa, grew up on a farm in Knoppieslaagte. His musical journey began with piano lessons, which he later abandoned for skateboarding. At 16, inspired by the work of Jaco Pastorius, he picked up the bass guitar. He earned a scholarship to Berklee College of Music ...

Soul Song (with Lionel Loueke)

By Yosef Gutman Levitt

Label: Soul Song Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Chai Elul; Soul Song; Myriad; Song of the Sea; The Tender Eyes of Leah; Amud Anan - Pillar of Cloud (Duet Version); Torah Tsiva; Kave El Hashem - Hope; Devotion; Tikun - Amend; Kol Dodi; Desert Song (Bonus Track); Hashkama - Up Early (Bonus Track); Amud Anan - Pillar of Cloud (Band Version).

Melodies of Light

By Yosef Gutman Levitt

Label: Soul Song Records
Released: 2023
Track listing: Movement One Opening; Movement Two Hamotzi; Movement Three The Dance; Movement Four Hananya; Movement Five Jonah's Garden; Movement Six Before the Rain; Movement Seven Timbuktu; Movement Eight The Way Home; Movement Nine Sunshine; Movement Ten Out of the Walls; Movement Eleven For Karim; Movement Twelve Lament; Movement Thirteen Let Me Draw Water; Movement Fourteen Bonus Track; Movement Fifteen Bonus Track; Movement Sixteen Bonus Track; Movement Seventeen Bonus Track.

Yosef Gutman Levitt

Born: January 29, 1979

ABOUT

Yosef Gutman's palette flourishes from the vast world colors which influenced his artistic development. Whether composing and recording new music or collaborating with high-caliber instrumentalists to explore the world of Nigunim (melodies from the heart), Yosef Gutman strives to foster connections that stimulate the imagination through music performed from the soul.

EARLY LIFE

Yosef Gutman was born in 1979 in South Africa. He grew up in a farming area known as Knoppieslaagte. He began music lessons at an early age, but abandoned the piano in favor of skateboarding at age 11. Life on the farm was quiet, chickens, geese, and horses roamed the property. This provided much time for kickflip practice on the bricked surfaces around the farm house.

At age 16 Yosef reshifted his passion back to music. Inspired by Weather Report, he picked up the bass guitar. The same quietude that afforded him uninterrupted skateboard practice was a perfect environment for many hours of bass exploration. At 18, Yosef submitted a recording of his arrangement of the South African National Anthem to Berklee College of Music in Boston, MA who subsequently invited him to study on a scholarship.

Omri Mor / Yosef-Gutman Levitt: Melodies of Light

by Mike Jurkovic
October 1, 2023

It is quite rare in a culture and society driven by autocrats, hits, likes, blogs and podcasts, that recordings as ethereal, yet born of the ageless earth, as Melodies of Light come around to release us from the daily ugly. Spontaneous music of this hypnotic, mysterious beauty and elusive grace give us pause to ...

Upside Down Mountain

By Yosef Gutman Levitt

Label: Soul Song Records
Released: 2022
Track listing: Wedding Song; Time with Abba; Before the Journey; Jericho; Family (Folk Vibe); The Warriors; Arise; Joshua; Poltova; Twelve Stones; The Great River; Hodu Lashem.

Yosef Gutman Levitt: Upside Down Mountain

by Jerome Wilson
November 24, 2022

Yosef Gutman Levitt's acoustic bass guitar serves as the lead instrument on this album. The music he plays with his trio here is full of simple melodic beauty and draws from several folk traditions. This work has a sparse, contemplative joy which bears kinship to the recordings of Ralph Towner. Levitt shows an eloquent ...